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• A full and true account of a horrid and bloody conspiracy of the Papists against the Protestants in the North of England being a true copy of a letter from Thoms. Rowland at Hexham in Northumberland, shewing the intention of a most barbarous murther was intended to be committed on William Rowland of that place by the Lord Derwinwater's son, Mr. Thoms. Ratcliff, a papist. (London : Printed for James Baldwin, 1689), by Thomas Rowland (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Easy to Kill (c1931), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The mystery of the yellow room; extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter (Brentano's, 1908), by Gaston Leroux, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brentano's (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Border guns (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928), by Max Brand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le mystère de la chambre jaune ; pièce en cinq actes (Imprimerie de L'Illustration, 1912), by Gaston Leroux, Gaston Sorbets, and France) Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The queen of the isle : A novel, by May Agnes Fleming (Gutenberg ebook)
• The phantom hunter; or, love after death, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nick Carter Stories No. 135. April 10, 1915; Straight to the Goal; Or, Nick Carter's Queer Challenge, by Nicholas Carter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Murderer's Base, by William J. Brittain, illust. by Meilink (Gutenberg ebook)
• Growing Season, by F. L. Wallace (Gutenberg ebook)

• Frank Merriwell on the Road: or, The All-Star Combination (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)
• Ralph Raymond's Heir, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)

• The tryal of Neale Molloy, Esq. and Vere Molloy, his wife : at a sitting of His Majesty's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and General Goal [sic] Delivery, for the city of Dublin on Friday, the 10th of December, 1762 (Printed by B. Grierson, 1763), by Neale Molloy, Vere Molloy, and Ireland. Commission of Oyer and Terminer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trial of A.J. Monson (Canada Law Book Co., 1908), by A. J. Monson and John W. More (page images at HathiTrust)

• Address to the jury by Col. John Hallum in self defense in the case of the state of Texas against him : an indictment for shooting a minister of the Gospel : together with the extraordinary facts and remarkable incidents connected with the trial and prosecution. (J. H. Phillips, 1897), by John Hallum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Horrid murder of a little girl, at Ackhurst, near Wigan. (H. Disley, printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles, London, 1860), by Henry Disley and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dying speech of Robert Frances of Grays-Inn, Esq., July 24, 1685 delivered by his own hand to the ordinary, at the place of execution, desiring the same might be published. (London : Printed by George Croom ..., 1685), by Robert Frances (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Full and true account of the taking Count Charles John Coningsmark, lately impeached as the principle contriver of the barbarous and bloody murther of Thomas Thinn, Esq; with the manner of his being discover'd on board a Sweeds ship at Gravesend, in the habit of a seaman, on the 19. of this instant February. (London, : Printed for E. Brooks, 1681 [i.e. 1682]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Full relation of a barbarous murther committed upon the body of Esq. Beddingfield on Sunday the 20th day of July 1684 by Mr. Barney as also the further account of the tryal and conviction of the said Mr. Barney, who is to be executed for the same, at the Market-cross in Norwich, on Friday the first day of August, 1684. (London : Printed by George Croom ..., 1684) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Epilogue to the French midwife's tragedy who was burnt in Leicester-Fields, March 2, 1687/8, for the barbarous murder of her husband Denis Hobry / this may be printed, R.P. (London : Printed for Randal Taylor ..., 1688), by Elkanah Settle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Treason and murther, or, The Bloody father-in-lavv being a true and perfect relation of a horrible murther committed at Ham, neer Stratford in Essex on the wife of James Alsop by her husbands father and brother ... together with the manner how they were severally taken ... their commitment to Chelmsford goal and their tryal at the assizes March 25, 1673/4 ... (London : Printed by E. Miles, [1674]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Warning-piece to all married men and women being the full confession of Mary Hobry the French midwife, who murdered her husband on the 27th of January 1687/8 (as also the cause thereof), for which she receiv'd the sentence to be burnt alive, and on Friday the second day of March between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning she was drawn upon a sledge to Leicester-fields, where she was burnt to ashes. (London : Printed and sold by George Croom ..., 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Account of a horrid and barbarous murder committed on the body of a young person supposed to be of a good quality in the fields beyond Whitechappel-Church in the Parish of Stepny ... (London : Printed by George Croom ..., 1684) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Account of the discovery and siezing of Mr. Harrison and Mr. R. on the account of the murther of the late Doctor Clench : with a relation of the examination &c. of one of them, and of his commitment to New-gate last night, the 6th instant. ([London : s.n.], 1692) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Bloody news from Chelmsford, or, A proper new ballad containing a true and perfect relation of a most barbarous murder committed upon the body of a country curate, who died of a great wound given him in the bottom of his belly by a most cruel country-fellow for being too familiar with his wife : to the tune of Chevy Chase. (Oxford : [s.n.], 1663) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bloody vintner: or, Cruelty rewarded with justice. Being a true account of one Edward (alias) Edmund Kirk, vintner, who being privately married to a servant maid, did, on the 25th. of May, delude her from her masters house, under the pretence of visiting some relation; but having of her all alone in a private road near Paddington, he most barbarously and cruelly murdered her; for which fact he was indicted and found guilty, and also received due sentence of death, which was accordingly executed, on Friday the 11th. of this instant July, 1684. : To the tune of, Aim not too high:. ([London : s.n., 1684]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The last speech and confession of Peter Cæsar, a Portugal, at the place of execution together with his confession at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey ... likewise the tryal of the Frenchmen for ravishing a gentlewoman near Holborn ... as also a true relation concerning Mary Smith, who cut off her childs' head, with her examination and confession before Justice Swallow ... (London : Printed for Charles ----- Gustavus, 1664), by Peter Caesar (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A murderer punished and pardoned, or, A true relation of the wicked life, and shameful-happy death of Thomas Savage imprisoned, justly condemned, and twice executed at Ratcliff, for his bloody fact in killing his fellow-servant, on Wednesday, Octob. 28, 1668 / by us who were often with him in the time of his imprisonment in Newgate, at at his execution, Robert Franklin, Thomas Vincent, Thomas Doolitel, James Janeway, Hugh Baker ; to which is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral. (London,: Printed for P. P., in the Year, 1679), by R. A. (Richard Alleine), James Janeway, and Robert Franklin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Penitent sonnes teares for his murdered mother / by Nathaniel Tyndale, sicke both in soule and body, a prisoner now in Newgate. The much-afflicted mothers teares for her drowned daughter / [by?] Anne Musket, the wofull mother for her lost daughter (Printed at London : For Iohn Trundle, [1624]), by Nathaniel Tyndale and Anne Musket (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Perfect narrative of the robbery and murder committed near Dame Annis so Cleer, on Friday night the second of July, 1669, upon the person of Mr. John Talbot quondam preacher to a regiment of His Majesties forces in Portugal and lately ... curate of Laindon in Essex, who ... was stripped ... stabbed into the throat by six men and a bloody woman ... together with their examinations, tryal, and confessions. (London : Printed by William Godbid, MDCLXIX [1669]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A just account of the horrid contrivance of John Cupper, and Judith Brown, his servant, in poysoning his wife: who were tryed at the assizes held at Shrewsbury, the 21st. day of July, 1684 : Cupper to be hang'd in chains, and Judith Brown to be burnt : together with their dying confessions / published by me William Smith, Rector of Bitterly, their minister, to prevent false reports. (London : Printed for Edward Robinson, Bookseller in Ludlow, 1684), by William Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Strange and wonderful account of a most barbarous and bloody murther committed by five notorious villains on Tuesday the 11th of this instant May ... ([London? : s.n., 1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A True and impartial account of the cruel and bloody murther committed upon the body of Thomas Thin, Esq., well known in the west of Engl. for an estate of near 120000 l. a year: on Sunday the 12th of February, 1682, between the hours of seaven and eight at night, who was barbarously and inhumanely butcher'd in his own coach in the open street, by three out-landish villains, named, Frederick Fratz, a German captain, and George Boroskie, a Polander, and John Stern, a German ... letting you know the cause of this assassination, which they alledge was in the vindication of Count Charles John Conningsmarke ... ([London?] : Printed for J. Millit, in the Year, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of a most barbarous and bloody murder lately committed on the body of Mr. Tho. Clarke, minister and school-master in the parish of St. Margarets Westminster: ([London : printed by John Wallis in White-Fryers near the grear [sic] gate in Fleetstreet, 1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Examination of John Bartram. (London : Printed by Iohn Beale, 1616), by N. T., N. I., and N. J. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A True relation of the most horrid and barbarous murders committed by Abigall Hill of St. Olaves Southwark, on the persons of foure infants;: parish children, whom she undertooke to nurse, and her most deceitfull borrowing of other children of her poore acquaintance, whom on every quarter day she would bring to the over-seers of the parish, and receive her quarters pay for them, as if they had bin the same children which had bin committed to her charge to nurse. For which most cruell murders, being convicted and condemned at the sessions held at the Old-Baily. Wednesday Decemb. 15. Shee [sic] was accordingly executed on Wednesday, Decemb. 22. in Cheapside neare unto Woodstreet. Together with a true account of the strange and stubborn end she made, and her jeering of her executioner at the houre of her death. And a caveat to all other women that are suspected for the like unnaturall and most unmercifull practises. (London : Printed for F. Coles, 1658) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation, of the horrid and barbarous murther, committed on the bodys of Mr. Loggins, gent. and the ostler of the King's-Head in Coleshill: in the county of VVarvvick, by four persons; whereof three were apprehended, and committed to the county-goal. ([London : printed by E. Mallet, next door to Mr. Shipton's coffee-house, near Fleet-bridge, 1686]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tvvo notorious murders one committed by a tanner on his wiues sonne nere Horne-church in Essex, the other on a grasier nere Ailsburie in Buckinghamshire : with these is intermixt another murdrous intending fellonie at Rislip in Middlesex, all done this last month. (London : Printed for William Blackwall, & George Shaw, and are to be sold ouer against Guild-hall gate, [1595]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The confession of Francis Nicholson (who committed that most barbarous murther upon the body of John Dimbleby, servant to Mr. Marriot) at the place of execution which was upon the green over against Hampton-Court, and near the place where he did the murther on Wednesday last, it being the 27th of October 1680 : who was afterwards carried to Hounslow-Heath and there hang'd up in chains. ([London] : Printed and are to be sold by Richard Janeway, 1680), by Francis Nicholson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true narrative of the confession and execution of Francis Nicholson: who was executed this present Wednesday, being the 27th of this instant October, 1680. And hang'd up in chains at Hownslow-Heath, for murthering of one John Dimbleby at Hampton-Court this being his own true confession both to the Ordinary of Newgate, and several other ministers and others who came to him whilst he continued in prison, and have hereunto subscribed their names to attest the truth of this relation. ([London : printed by D. Mallet, 1680]), by Francis Nicholson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new discourse about the fire of London, and the probability of self-murther, in a letter to a friend concerning Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's death (London : Printed for R. Janeway ..., 1682), by Philopolis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bloody husband, and cruell neighbour. Or, A true historie of two murthers,: lately committed in Laurence Parish, in the Isle of Thanet in Knet, neer Sandwich: one murther by the hands of Adam Sprackling Esquire, who upon the 12th day of December last, being Sabbath day; in the morning, cut, mangled, and murthered his own wife; for which fact he was hanged at Sandwich upon Wednesday the 27th day of April last, 1653. The other the murther of Richard Langly, of the same parish, whose blood also (as is here shewed) cryed against the said Mr. Sprackling, written by one that lives neer the place where the said murthers were committed, and was present at Mr. Sprackling's tryall; and published for the warning, and good of all. May 13. 1653. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. (London : Printed by Tho. Warren, 1653) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Bloody news from Covent Garden; being a true relation, how one Mr. Bulger, an Irish gentleman, who committed a horrible and bloody murther near the three-tun tavern, in Chandois-Street: and of a baker's wife that is secured for the same fact: (London : printed for T.O., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Bloody news from Southwark: or, A perfect relation how the master of the Ship-Inne neer Deadman-place, was found barbarously kill'd upon his bed, on Tuesday the 15th of this instant February.: And several other remarkable circumstances of the fact. (London : Printed for D.M., in the Year 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The bloody Quaker or the Glocester-shire murder discovered: Being an exact and true relation of a bloody murder, committed by one farmer restal a Quaker of Stoke near Tueksbury in Glocester-shire who with his son murdered the wife of one robert Hamond to whom he was indebted the summe of thirty pound, as also another young woman which had been married but four dayes before, and how the murder was discovered by the meanes of a boy which over run them, likewise their arraignment at Glocester assizes, their condemnation, with the execution of the son, the 7th of this present July and how the father is at present repreived. With allowance. (London : printed by P.L[illicrap], 1668) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Cabinet of grief, or, The French midwife's miserable moan for the barbarous murther committed upon the body of her husband with the manner of her conveying away his limbs and of her execution, she being burnt to ashes on the 2d of March in Leicester-fields. ([London] : [J.] Blare ..., 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A full and true relation of the examination and confession of W. Barwick and E. Mangall, of two horrid murders: one committed by William Barwick upon his wife being with child, near Cawood in Yorkshire, upon the 14th. of April last: as likewise a full account how it came to be discovered by an apparition of the person murder'd. The second was committed by Edward Mangall, upon Elizabeth Johnson alias Ringrose, and her bastard child, on the 4th. of September last, who said he was tempted thereto by the devil. Also their trials and convictions before the honorable Sir John Powel, Knight, one of their Majesties Justices, at the Assizes holden at York, on the 16th. of September, 1690. October the 7. Published according to order, 1690. ([London : printed for Isaac Cleave at the Star, next to Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane, [1690]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Heavens speedie hue and cry sent after lust and murder: manifested upon the suddaine apprehending of Thomas Shearwood, and Elizabeth Evans, whose manner of lives, death, and free confessions, are heere expressed : also some new additions, concerning the man that was tide [sic] to the gibbeit, with a discovery of those places where such kinds of lude people haunt and resort ... disclosed by this Sherwood a little before his death : who were executed the one upon the 14 and the other on the 17 of this moneth of April 1635 ... / written by H.G. their daily visiter at the time of their imprisonment, and severall dayes of execution ; published by authority. (London : Printed by N. & I. Okes, dwelling in Well-yard in little St. Bartholomews, neare unto the Lame Hospitall gate, 1635), by Henry Goodcole (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter of a sad tragedy by Prince Griffin at Sayton, neere Chester:: and his severall attempts against the Lady Causely. And the bloody murther for which he is fled into Scotland : and a copy of a letter from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. With a petition from divers collonels and other officers under Major Generall Laughorne, to the House of Commons. (London : Printed for A.C. and A.W., 1648), by George Jones and Thomas Fairfax (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The sufferers legacy to surviving sinners[;] or, Edmund Kirk's dying advice to young men: vvrote by his own hand in Newgate, and delivered to his friend with a desire the same might be published, on Friday the 11th of June, 1684. Being the day on which he was executed at Tyburn, for murthering his wife. (London : printed by Geo. Croom, in Thames-street over against Baynard's Castle, 1684), by Edmund Kirk (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The apprentices vvarning-piece.: Being a confession of Peter Moore, formerly servant to Mr. Bidgood, apothecary in Exeter, executed there the last assises for poysoning his said master. Wherein is observed such lamentable expressions proceeding from him, as may produce a trembling to all who reade or heare thereof, and be a warning to such leud servants who walk the same steps, lest they receive the same punishment. (London : Printed, and are to be sold by Henry Walker, 1641), by Peter Moore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The behaviour of John Hutchins in Newgate: together with his dying words as he was going to be executed in Fleet- Street on Wednesday the 17th of December, 1684, for murdering of John Sparks, a waterman, near Serjeants-Inn, London, on Wednesday the 3d of December. (London : Printed by G. Croom ..., 1684), by Samuel Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true account of the behaviour of Thomas Randal, who was executed at Stone-bridge, for killing the Quaker, on Wednesday the 29th of this instant January 1695[/]6: (London : printed for E. Mallet, near Fleet-Bridge, 1695/6 [i.e. 1696]), by Samuel Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The bloudy mother, or The most inhumane murthers, committed by Iane Hattersley vpon diuers infants, the issue of her owne bodie: & the priuate burying of them in an orchard with her araignment and execution. As also, the most loathsome and lamentable end of Adam Adamson her Master, the vnlawfull begetter of those vnfortunate babes being eaten and consumed aliue with wormes and lice. At east Grinsted in Sussex neere London, in Iuly last. 1609. (London : printed by Iohn Busbie, and are to be sold by Artheur Iohnson in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the White Horse, [1610]), by T. B. (Thomas Brewer) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A mirrour of mercy and judgement, or, An exact true narrative of the life and death of Freeman Sonds Esquier [sic], sonne to Sir George Sonds of Lees Court in Shelwich in Kent who being about the age of 19, for murthering his elder brother on Tuesday the 7th of August, was arraigned and condemned at Maidstone, executed there on Tuesday the 21. of the same moneth [sic] 1655. (London : Printed for Thomas Dring ..., 1655), by R. B. (Robert Boreman) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bloody lover, or, Barbarous nevvs from Glocester a full and true relation how an inhumane villain named William Hall, did on the 16th of October last, most cruelly murther a maid, whose name was Sarah Butt, that was his sweet-heart, as she was milking, cleaving her skull in three places with a hedging-bill, cutting off one of her hands, and giving her several other mortal wounds : as also how he endeavoured to have killed a little child that was with her, and formerly attempted to murther both her and her mother, wounding the latter in several places. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, 1673) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Bloody nevvs from Chattam, or, A true and impartial account of a most barbarous murther, committed upon the body of a widdow, and her son. On twelf-day last past, by her pretended sweet-heart, in a copps, about half a mile from Becon-Hill, within a mile of Chattam. With the manner how this murther (through the providence of God) was discovered by a dog, that was with a boy gathering of sticks. A Relation of his apprehension, & what he confessed to the justice of peace and some ministers, in the goal at Canterbury, where he is now in durance. Any man may be satisfied of the truth of this, at the Queens-head at Billisgate, at the Starr Inn upon Fish-street-hill, by the Kentish carriers, and other gentlemen lodging there. ([London] : Printed for George Smith, 1675) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Bloody newes from St. Albans being a perfect relation of a horrible murder committed on Wednesday last, upon Mris Bass, a widdow living at the sign of the Green-Tree in the said town ... : also, a barbarous and inhumane murder, committed by a farmer near Colchester, upon his wife ... : likewise a cruel and divellish plot discovered at Wem in Shropshire by Mr. Page, a surgion, with the manner how the chief actor was taken, and committed by the mayor of Shrewsbury ... (London : Printed for John Johnson, 1661) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Full and true account of a most barbarous murther and robbery committed by John Davis on the body of Esq. Bowles's lady, at Cleaver, near Windsor ... (London : Printed for A.H. ..., 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Caution to married couples being a true relation how a man in Nightingale-Lane, having beat and abused his vvife, murthered a tub-man that endevoured to stop him from killing her with a half-pike, for which he was carried to Newgate the 15th of May, 1677. (London : Printed for D.M., 1677) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A More exact and full relation of the horrid and cruel murther lately committed upon Cossuma Albertus, a Prince of Transilvania, by his own servants with an account of the place where, the time when and the manner how he was murthered : and also how the murtherers made their escape to London with their princes treasure ... here is also the true coppy of a letter from the mayor of Rochester ... wherein is expressed in what great pomp and state this great prince was intered in the cathedral church at Rochester. (London : Printed, and are to be sold by R. Vaughan, 1661) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sad news from Ratcliff being a full and true relation of a horrid and bloody murther committed upon the bodies of an antient gentlewoman (Captain Giddings wifes mother), and his sisters child, who was a girl of two years and a half old, and a maidservant in the the house, by Robert Condinge ..., William Thomas and William Rogers ... who afterward robbed the house of Captain Giddings in Brook-street, Ratcliff, on Friday the thirteenth of this instant January : how Condinge was apprehended ... with an account of his confession and commitment to Newgate &c., faithfully related and published to prevent mistakes and false reports. (London : Printed by G. Croom ..., 1691) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horrid news from St. Martins, or, Unheard-of murder and poyson being a true relation how a girl not full sixteen years of age, murdered her own mother at one time, and a servant-maid at another with ratsbane : as also how she very lately gave poyson to two gentlewomen that since her mothers death kept and maintained her : upon which being aprehended, she has confess'd the former villanies, and was on Tuesday last, being the 19th of this instant June, committed to prison, where she now remains : with the substance of her examination, the like unnatural wickedness scarce ever read of before in any age : to which is added the taking of a man for murder committed at Islington two years ago, &c. (London : Printed for D.M., 1677) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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